Claire Powell’s first novel, At the Table (2022), delineated a year in the life of the Maguire family from south London – a ...

Cool Machine, the final novel in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy (following Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto), is another ...

In June 1948, the writer Osamu Dazai and his last love, Tomie Yamazaki, drowned themselves in the Tamagawa Aqueduct ...

I had not thought much about spiders until I read Maria Tatar’s Arachnomania; now I can think of little else. I even watched ...

Nicola Wilding is a documentary film producer, whose family was originally rural working class. Aged 60, her mother, Sandra, ...

The warning is about the direction of travel, not the present state: building such a weapon still demands skill and resources ...

Early in her biography, Catharine Edwards understates the obvious: ‘False modesty was never Cicero’s problem.’ What she does ...

The French couple did not speak much English so I rattled on in my best French, thinking I was doing a fine job. She asked ...

Just one day after Ed Miliband was made Foreign Secretary we heard in the Telegraph that the White House is upset about the ...

Have you heard of Jameela Jamil? No, me neither, though I’m told she’s worryingly influential. This British-born ‘actress, ...

Figures released this morning by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show inflation fell to 2.6 per cent in ...

New Jersey officials just admitted that roughly 6,600 non-citizens were illegally registered to vote between 2023 and ...